The Seas, The Sun & The Air - The Okinawa Way Feb 2017 (III)

There is this village of Longevity known as Ogimi Village that I have heard since young.  I recalled there was this documentary showing the very healthy grandpas and grandmas at Okinawa who have lived for more than 100 years! I still remember that the music of the documentary was very cute and I have tried to recall the tune to my dear.

One of the "secrets" of Longevity is the food they take at Okinawa.  Uniquely that most of the traditional Okinawa dish have bitter gourd. There is also this purple potato which we saw it in the TVB show.  Googling for a good place to makan, we found one very interesting restaurant known as Eminomise (Emi's restaurant).  There was this special "longevity" meal which you needed to book in advance but too bad we didn't realise until we were about to check out from our hotel!

We still decided to proceed there and asked the hotel staff to help us booked a table. Upon reaching Eminomise, we parked our car and saw a vegetable farm opposite to the restaurant. My dear said the farm were the source of ingredients for the meals and the food would be fresh.

We were ushered to our wooden table by the staff who all spoke very good English. We were near a TV set which was showing documentary of Ogimi Village, I think.  We were seated also next to the windows and we could hear some noises from the school nearby.  We got to try any versions of longevity meals they offered as we needed to live another more 100 years to travel to many more places and experience life. 

The lunch was indeed very nicely placed and fresh! It was the very first time that I ate a bitter gourd that was not bitter! I was not sure why and my dear's explanation was they were from the farm - fresh from the oven, and organic! I was not sure why they liked to put the giant "ikan bills" - these fishes were the only one that I passed to my dear to eat.  I liked the okinawa donuts which were slightly sweet and since then I craved for them whenever we makaned in okinawa.  My dear commented in the diary that I was very "game" in trying new food in a new country.  However, I would conveniently pass to her what I dun dare to try. Cos of this, she usually ordered another dish different from me.  She didn't indicate the reason(s) but I thought she could pass some of the stuff that I liked to eat to me bah?  Haha.